Shift
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 576
- ISBN-13
- 9781780891224
- Type
- novel
About this book
Shift, published in 2013 at 576 pages -- the longest of the three -- rewinds the clock generations to explain how and why the silos were built in the first place.
Key facts about Shift
Shift is a novel by Hugh Howey. Readers have had it since 2013. It runs to 576 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Shift. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781780891224 to find the main one.
Shift is book 2 of 3 in the Silo series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with Wool (2011).
Additionally, Hugh Howey writes The Molly Fyde Saga as a separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction and post-apocalyptic science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Across the Sand is the latest published Hugh Howey book on file, from 2022.
About Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey is an American author best known for the Silo series, beginning with the self-published novella Wool in 2011, which follows the residents of a massive underground silo generations after some unspecified catastrophe made the surface world uninhabitable -- and the dangerous consequences of anyone questioning the silo's strict rules about what lies outside. See every Hugh Howey book in order.
Its place in Silo
Shift is book 2 in the Silo series. It follows Wool. It is followed by Dust. See the full Silo reading order.
Thousands of people live in a massive underground silo, generations removed from whatever destroyed the world above. The air outside is toxic, everyone knows it, and the one rule no one breaks is that you never ask to go outside — because the silo always grants that wish, and no one who leaves the airlock ever comes back. When the sheriff himself asks to go out, his death sets off a chain of events that pulls a reluctant new sheriff, an engineer, and a shadow government of silo administrators into a fight over…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781480568006
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781804940839
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781481983556